With all the talk about the cloud, it seems appropriate to refer readers a blog entry by Bruce Richardson of Infor, who recently recounted what he called the enduring appeal of System i, formerly the iSystem, formerly the AS/400. Richardson, who joined Infor a few months ago, was surprised that so many customers run Infor software on the venerable IBM hardware and that the customer retention rate "continues to be several points higher than our 93% level average across all of our products." Read more...